Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism by Antonello, Pierpaolo

Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611861655)

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Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism by Antonello, Pierpaolo

Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism

$29.95
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism by Antonello, Pierpaolo

Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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Fifty years after its publication in English, Ren Girard's Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, and sometimes irritate, literary scholars. It has become one of the great classics of literary criticism, and the notion of triangular desire is now part of the theoretical parlance among critics and students. It also represents the genetic starting point for what has become one of the most encompassing, challenging, and far-reaching theories conceived in the humanities in the last century: mimetic theory. This book provides a forum for new generations of scholars and critics to reassess, challenge, and expand the theoretical and hermeneutical reach of key issues brought forward by Girard's book, including literary knowledge, realism and representation, imitation and the anxiety of influence, metaphysical desire, deviated transcendence, literature and religious experience, individualism and modernity, and death and resurrection. It also provides a more extensive and detailed historical understanding of the representation of desire, imitation, and rivalry within European and world literature, from Dante to Proust and from Dickens to Jonathan Littell.

Author: Pierpaolo Antonello
ISBN-10: 1611861659
ISBN-13: 9781611861655
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2015
Pages: 358
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
By Pierpaolo Antonello
By Pierpaolo Antonello
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Pierpaolo Antonello is Reader in Modern Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College. With René Girard and João Cezar de Castro Rocha, he coauthored Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture, and he is a member of the Research and Publications committees of Imitatio.
Heather Webb is lecturer in the Department of Italian at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Selwyn College. She specializes in medieval literature and culture with a particular interest in Dante. She is the author of The Medieval Heart and a number of articles on Catherine of Siena, Dante, and Giovanni da San Gimignano.

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